The Ontario Hosta Society, in conjunction with the Royal Botanical Gardens (680 Plains Rd. W. Burlington), presents the Hosta Forum, Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Registration begins at 8:30 am
$60.00
Includes 4 fabulous speakers, Live Auction, a light lunch/ beverages/home baking! Prizes! Great Friends!
Other Gardening Events
March 16-25 Canada Blooms, Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto
April 5, 6 & 7 Peterborough Garden Show, Evinrude Centre, Peterborough – For the Love of Gardening
Sunday, June 24 Heart of Northumberland Big Sisters Big Brothers Garden Tour
Sunday, July 8 Horizons of Friendship - Houses, Gardens and Music Tour
OHA and District 4 Events in 2012
March 17 Spring Get Together, Peterborough Library, 1 – 3.30 pm
April 21 District 4 AGM, Minden Community Centre, 9 am – 3.30 pm
June 13 District 4 Lunch and Awards Celebration, Naval Club, Peterborough, 11 am – 3 pm
August 17-19 OHA Convention, Niagara College, Niagara-on-the-Lake - Gardening then and now
Introducing the 1812 Rose – a fund raiser for the OHA for the 2012 Convention in Niagara On The Lake. Here is a picture and short description of this wonderful rose. It will complement any garden.
HOW TO ORDER
Cobourg Club Members – Use the B&W version of the order form handed out at the December 7 meeting. You can download the form here. Please bring the completed form and your money to the February 2012 meeting. We will send all orders to the OHA for bulk purchase and delivery. We should have them for our April meeting or May at the latest.
Anne Parks
Book Review: Energy-Wise Landscape Design. A New Approach for your Home and Garden. Author Sue Reed
The premise of this excellent new (2010) book is that we can all save energy (and money) by making changes to the landscaping around our property. The author shows ways to conserve not only operating energy such as fuels for mowers, etc. and electricity for lighting but also embedded energy – that is energy used to create the equipment and materials we use in our landscaping.
The book is organized in sections on design arrangement, building and caring, methods of generating home energy, and energy efficient lighting. Chapters are short and precise so the book can be used as a reference work as well as enjoying cover to cover.
Available at the Cobourg Public Library at 712.6 Ree and possibly others in Northumberland.
Keith Stratton
